Opinion News -If we can explore the fear within our collective shadow, it can lead us towards transforming our increasingly troubled world. . Read more at straitstimes.com. Source: Facing the shadow during a pandemic of fear, Opinion News & Top Stories – The Straits Times
We dig into the ins and outs of nutritional psychiatry and how food plays a role in your emotional wellness. Source: Experts Say Nutritional Psychiatry Is A Thing — But How Does It Work Exactly? Opinion: We hear a lot about how booze, drugs, and even pollution can mess up our minds. But in keeping… Read More Experts Say Nutritional Psychiatry Is A Thing — But How Does It Work Exactly? | Opinion
Ken McCallum said that fake accounts were being used on an ‘industrial ‘scale’ in an attempt to steal state secrets. Source: MI5 boss warns that foreign spies are using fake profiles on social media sites like LinkedIn | Daily Mail Online Opinion: Spies are often linked to organized crime and “the money” – that is,… Read More MI5 boss warns that foreign spies are using fake profiles on social media sites like LinkedIn | Daily Mail Online | Opinion
A recent French study in the journal Emotion has drawn a new link between right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO) and heart rate variability (HRV). Source: Poor adaptation to stress may drive authoritarian attitudes Opinion: I should subhead this, Why I Left Psychology for Sociology. There are so many problems with this that I almost didn’t… Read More Poor adaptation to stress may drive authoritarian attitudes | Opinion
Kremlin mocks foe Navalny over alleged underwear poison plot The Kremlin on Tuesday mocked opposition politician Alexei Navalny and tried to call his sanity into question, a day after he said he had tricked a Russian secret agent into disclosing lurid details of a botched plot to kill him. Source: Kremlin mocks foe Navalny over… Read More Kremlin mocks foe Navalny over alleged underwear poison plot | Opinion
We all play a role in life. Oftentimes that role changes as we grow and develop. Sometimes we get fixated on a particular role and – in those cases – become a bore. Psychologists call it “ego identification” or “ego-identity.” What parts or forces of the personality and our outer activities do we identify with?… Read More Games People Play or What Role Do You Play?
Mental health care urgently needs to be more adaptive to the needs of different communities. What’s available now is often unhelpful, insensitive or worse. The Western model wouldn’t necessarily look to God or spirituality for healing, he says, and it certainly wouldn’t turn to nature, which is seen as below humans. “Whereas, in an Indigenous… Read More Why Culturally Specific Therapy Is An Urgent Necessity in Canada – Flare | Opinion
Could there possibly be benefits to anger? Source: 3 Benefits Of Anger, According To A Psychologist Opinion: I personally do not like anger much. A lot like laughing, when we are angry the rational centers of our brains tend to be eclipsed. In my case, if I laugh too much I can get distracted and… Read More 3 Benefits Of Anger, According To A Psychologist | Opinion
Recent psychopathy research has involved a critical re-examination of the construct. Absent from this research has been an analysis of the role unconscious shame might play in etiology, traits and behaviour. Outside of the domain of psychopathy Source: (PDF) Psychopathy, unconscious shame and attachment: Considering the psychodynamics of psychopathy | Peter Heinze – Academia.edu Opinion:… Read More (PDF) Psychopathy, unconscious shame and attachment: Considering the psychodynamics of psychopathy | Peter Heinze – Academia.edu | + Opinion
Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was an Austrian-born Freudian psychoanalyst and a pioneer in psychoanalysis for children. Klein’s idea of the ‘paranoid-schizoid position’ is meant to apply to an aspect of childhood development but Klein realizes that not a few adults with unresolved issues fit into this scenario. According to Klein’s theory, the child in a paranoid-schizoid… Read More Melanie Klein – Pioneering psychoanalyst who saw kids in some adults
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